Primus Reveals New Single "The Scheme" From Upcoming Album (LISTEN)

The Desaturating Seven is inspired by 1970’s children’s book The Rainbow Goblins by Italian author and artist Ul de Rico. Claypool often read the book to his children as they were growing up and it tells a story of seven goblins.

The Desaturating Seven is inspired by 1970’s children’s book The Rainbow Goblins by Italian author and artist Ul de Rico. Claypool often read the book to his children as they were growing up and it tells a story of seven goblins – one representing each color of the rainbow – who simultaneously pull all the color out of the world.

Claypool found inspiration in de Rico’s paintings for The Rainbow Goblins. “The artwork is just amazing,” he says. “There’s a beauty but also a dark eeriness for this compelling, sinister story. The paintings are incredible, vibrant, unique looking—it’s a good contrast between dark and light visually and metaphorically. And there’s always been a strong visual element to Primus.”

The art of The Rainbow Goblins also crosses over into the cover image and packaging of the new album with a vinyl pressing featuring clear vinyl with a rainbow splatter.

A GRAMMY-nominated and multi-platinum selling band, Primus has toured with some of rock’s biggest names (Jane’s Addiction, Public Enemy, Rush, U2, etc.) and headlined the third-ever Lollapalooza Festival. Their 2017 Ambushing The Storm Tour includes fall dates throughout the south and east coast, including a Halloween show at Brooklyn’s Brooklyn Steel. All dates are listed below.

This is the first studio album of original material since 1995’s Tales From The Punchbowl with the classic Primus line-up of Les Claypool (vocals, bass), Larry LaLonde (guitar) and Tim Alexander (drums).

Les Claypool and Sean Lennon have decided to combine their abstract talents into a project called The Claypool Lennon Delirium. Their efforts thus far have spawned the upcoming, full-length release called The Monolith of Phobos.